Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) made a virtual presentation titled, “Implications of effective behavior change interventions in post-COVID-19 era for mental health problems among the rural elderly populations,” at the 5th International Symposium on Global Pandemics and…

Asma Awan, Miklo Alcala, Priyambda Kumra, (all Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a paper titled, "Navigating the past for a South Asian paradigm of mental health: A chronological literature review," at the Ankara International Congress on Scientific Research-VIII held in…

Bryan Bledsoe (Emergency Medicine) has released the sixth-edition of the textbook Paramedic Care: Principles and Practices. Pearson Education (Brady) is proud to announce the release of the sixth-edition of Bledsoe’s Paramedic Care: Principles and Practices. This textbook, first published in 1991, has become the standard for paramedic…

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine Endocrinology Fellowship, including Melanie Shackleford (student), Ryan Shao (resident), Faun Botor (resident), Talha Khan (fellow), Ajay Kumar(fellow), Mark Chang (faculty), Amber Champion (faculty), and Kenneth Izuora (faculty) presented three abstracts titled, "A Case of Rathke's Cleft Cyst with Multiple…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with Ravi Batra, and Manoj Sharma (both Public Health) published a book chapter titled "Social Media and Infodemiology: Use of Social Media Monitoring in Emergency Preparedness" in the book Effective Use of Social Media in Public Health. This chapter aims to elucidate the “misinformation” aspect of the…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) have co-edited a book titled, “Effective Use of Social Media in Public Health,” published by Elsevier (ISBN: 9780323956307). The book presents a current and extensive review of social media and its role in public health and health care. The book is…

Syed Saquib, Paul Chestovich, Carmen Flores, Joseph Carroll, Douglas Fraser, Jessica Tullington, and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) published an abstract for their study, "The Role of Body Mass Index in Hospitalized Burn Patients," in the Journal of Burn Care & Research. These findings were also presented at the 2023 Annual Conference of the…

Hannah Nemec, Abigail Cheng, Paul Chestovich, Syed Saquib, Douglas Fraser, Carmen Flores, Joshua Ho, and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published an abstract for their study, "Assessing the Impact of Prone Positioning Among Adult Burn Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome," in the Journal of Burn Care & Research. These findings were also…

Assistant professor Kristina Domanski, MD, (Emergency Medicine) co-authored a case report titled, "Bilateral knee septic arthritis after prostatic urethral lift," which was recently published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports.  Dr. Domanski is the assistant director of research for the department of…

Samuel C. Cohler, Paul Chestovich, Kavita Batra, and Syed F. Saquib (all Medicine) presented their research, "Evaluation of Socioeconomic Status and Burn Injuries: A Retrospective Review from a Desert Burn Center," at the 2023 American Burn Association annual meeting held in Grapevine, Texas. This research found that patients from the more…

Dr. Marc J. Kahn, dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and Paul J. Hauptman, dean of the UNR school of Medicine recently co-authored an editorial in STAT News detailing the need for more graduate education spots (residencies and fellowships) in order to help solve Nevada's physician shortage problem.

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors associated with opioid addiction helping behaviour in tri-state Appalachian counties: Application of the PRECEDE–PROCEED model–cross-sectional analysis,” in the journal, BMJ Open (Impact Factor: 3.007), in…